ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHEAST
OF
LAREDO,
TEXAS
in an otherwise desolate and
unincorporated stretch of Webb County, a roughed-out grid of unnamed dirt
roads cuts through a maze of half-built cinderblock homes and dilapidated
trailers. ¶ Israel Reyna, a local attorney and advocate for the poor, has been
driving me through this and similar communities, and we’ve stopped amid
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A “restricted” sign
with instructions
hangs from the
entrance to a
colonia resident’s
property in Texas.